| Portion of title |
Civil War and the destruction of slavery in the lower Mississippi Valley |
| Series |
Cambridge studies on the American South
Cambridge studies on the American South. ^A1092281
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| Contents |
Prologue: Life -- and Labor -- on the Mississippi -- Part I: From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860-1862 -- "An Independent Power" -- Of Stampedes and Free Papers -- "Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended" -- "The Unsatisfactory Prospect before Them" -- Part II: From Military Emancipation to State Abolition, 1863 -- "The Return of the Seceded States to This Union As Slave States" -- "Repugnant to the Spirit of the Age" -- "The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship" -- "The Name of 'Slavery'" -- "Repudiating the Emancipation Proclamation and Reestablishing Slavery" -- Part III: Abolition: State and Federal, 1864 -- "Slavery Is Incompatible with a Republican Form of Government" -- Of Foul Combinations and the Common Object -- "The Jewel of Liberty" -- "The Virus of Slavery Is As Virulent As It Ever Was" -- "No Longer Slaves but Freedmen" -- "So Long as a Spark of Vitality Remains in the Institution of Slavery" -- "Freedom, Full, Broad and Unconditional" -- "To Resolve Never Again To Be Reduced to Slavery" -- Part IV: The Destruction of Slavery, 1865 -- "The Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken" -- "This Cup of Liberty" -- "Establish Things As They Were before the War" -- "The Institution of Slavery Having Been Destroyed" -- "Americans in America, One and Indivisible" -- Epilogue: Memphis and New Orleans: May 1-3, and July 30, 1866 |
| Abstract |
"This book is written for both specialists and a general audience. It addresses interpretive questions that are important to specialists on emancipation and the Civil War; and for general readers it weaves into a coherent narrative the war's military history, political developments, and the "on-the-ground" destruction of slavery"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rodrigue, John C. Freedom's crescent 1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781108539715 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022034272 |
| ISBN | 9781108439343 |
| ISBN | 9781108424097 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1108424090 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | 1108439349 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
